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title: "1 Emptyness Quotes By Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans"
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> [“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen brow of death: ah, that is something like it. A delicious straying away from the world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/huysmans-joris-karl-huysmans/to-love-at-a-distance-and-without-hope-never-to-possess-to-dream/)

Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans

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## More by Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans

> [“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/huysmans-joris-karl-huysmans/i-marvel-at-the-placidity-of-the-utopian-who-imagines-that-man-is/)

Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans

> [“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/huysmans-joris-karl-huysmans/to-love-at-a-distance-and-without-hope-never-to-possess-to-dream/)

Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans

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